Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

Your toes and other assorted joys

Time
This single sparrow from your hands
Not enough
To know well enough
Your toes
Alone
Consume a thousand years.
Your eyes
would be the longest looking
Because looking I
would find your mouth
And
Journeys there have no end
Only beginnings.
— Orphani, Sep 11, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

More from this author

Critiques

Seren

Seren

16 years 9 months ago

Dear O… Simply? just the

Dear O... Simply? just the depth of how very beautiful this little poem is? .. I am in awe wonderful write ... love and respect Jayne
R

raskin

16 years 9 months ago

O

This is good! Short but packed with wow. raskin
L

lyz

16 years 9 months ago

Hi

This is really good. A clever write. I know my mouth doesn't have an end. Lol. Quite profound. Lyz.XX
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 8 months ago

Regardless of all the contention, this is a lovely, lovely poem

Hi, I've come searching, after the goings on under "History", see if I can find what to conundrum was (I say conundrum because how can anyone be 'right' on such matters, it's all just opinion) Anyway, there is no evidence of interaction here to mark the spot, though the write is lovely & definately shows evidence of that kind of "textural"/visual word play, I can see that some would find it distracting, & I admit that even though the delightful sentiment expressed stays so sweetly in my mind (you do have such skill for writing adoring poetry), I do have a kind of klanging imagery of capital letters & dotted lines... I wonder if I'd have noticed it so much had all that discussion not been evident though. Regardless of all that, this is a lovely, lovely poem. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 8 months ago

wow

A beautiful write... very tender. Always, Cat
L

lyz

16 years 7 months ago

Dear O

Still a great piece of work and best wishes to you, Love to you and yours, Lyz. XX
seabhac

seabhac

16 years 7 months ago

Glad you edited

Might have missed it otherwise. It feels like a whispered promise, a sweet nothings in my ear. I wanted more... Seabhac
TT

The Man In The Tower

16 years 7 months ago

This is

This is a really nice nice piece it read very well i enjoyed it a lot Lee
Bonitaj

Bonitaj

16 years 7 months ago

Orphani

where have you been - or was it I who was gone? Quite splendid - you keep us hanging on gasping for more~! Bonita j
Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

16 years 5 months ago

…..o

This is a lovely write Because is misspelled. Other than that I enjoy reading. ~~~~~~~~~ If you don't like it, can't talk about it, then write about it. Respectfully Yours, Barbara
O

Orphani

16 years 5 months ago

Thanks for stopping by.I

Thanks for stopping by.I know my spelling is terrible.I hope to stop by on your next poem.Barry ,,,o,,
Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

16 years 5 months ago

Barry

thanks will appreciate you reading and commenting ~~~~~~~~~ If you don't like it, can't talk about it, then write about it. Respectfully Yours, Barbara